Thoughts of Today

"It's spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you've got it, you want - oh, you don't quite know what it is you do want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so!" ~Mark Twain

“Bombing for peace is like fucking for virginity.” The first time I ever saw this was on the bathroom wall at Bangor High School. I remember thinking that I wished that my high school was cool enough to have philosophical statements on the walls like that. All we had was call “207-623-4578 for a good time.” The irony there kills me.

"Poetry is in my bones."
"...a village elder who, observing the red northern lights in the sky following September 11, commented, 'There is too much violence in the world today.'"
Both from "Finding a Place for Poetry in the Classroom Every Day" by Sheri Skelton